CalArts Podcasts

Beyond the Blue Wall: The Story of A-Block

January 23, 2023 California Institute of the Arts Season 2 Episode 3
CalArts Podcasts
Beyond the Blue Wall: The Story of A-Block
Show Notes

On Saturday, June 5, 2021, a cooling tower on the fifth floor of CalArts’ A-block overflowed, flooding several locations  below and causing much damage to the Character and Experimental Animation areas. This is the story of that flood, as well as the resurrection of this critically important space on the CalArts’ campus.

To follow the progress of construction in A-block, visit this page on the School of Film/Video website.

Learn more about CalArts’ Character Animation and Experimental Animation programs.

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Beyond the Blue Wall's Season 2 original theme music (the intro and outro) was composed and performed by 2020 Music alumnx, Socks Whitmore. You can learn more about Socks at sockswhitmore.com

Additional music in this episode includes:

Beyond the Blue Wall is a production of the CalArts Office of Advancement. You can find all of the episodes at calarts.edu/btbw.